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Review: ‘The Hateful Eight’

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It seems that Quentin Tarantino, now with his eighth film, no longer seems to want to make purely escapist entertainment, he longer wants to give you a fun movie with a dance number and some action and a bunch of witty banter about pop culture. Instead, for a few years now, Tarantino has been making movies that have also set out to push buttons, and his films have made people engage in conversations about a wide array of topics, including racism in American history as well in American cinema, the use of violence as a way to resolve conflict, the power of the medium of movies and how it can be used as a weapon, the value or lack thereof of revenge fantasies. And now “The Hateful Eight” joins that list as a movie that has people talking.

Let’s add to the noise, shall we?

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Review: ‘Joy’

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“Joy” is a movie about the invention of the Miracle Mop.

Okay, “Joy” is obviously about so much more than that. It is about the lady who did that, and what kind of odds she was up against when she set out to change the world one invention at a time. Sure there is nothing glamorous about a mop, but then again there wasn’t anything glamorous about this lady’s life and yet she turned shit into shinola, lemons into lemonade, resolve into opportunity, you know, that kind of thing. What happens when you make adversaries in business and you can’t even rely on your family to help you out of trouble? You make it happen by yourself, just like Joy.

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#155 – Cresmas Vacation

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In episode 155, Chris Crespo and Drewster Cogburn celebrate Cresmas once again!

In this very special edition of Cinema Crespodiso, Chris and Drew speak with each of their past eleven guests about their favorite holiday movies. You may be surprised which movie gets brought up the most, or you might totally agree with them.

There is also a special Cresmas edition of Billy D’s Death at the Movies, and Chris and Drew also talk about their own favorite holiday movies.

Guests featured on this episode include Cody Taylor, Mike Venditti, Chico, Etchie, Amy Drew Thompson, Ed Shuffles, Joey DiSturco, Jen Vargas, Simon Time, Swervey Jones and Erica Lee.

Merry Cresmas to all, and to all a g’day, mate.

 

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#154 – The Money Awakens

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In episode 154, Chris Crespo and Drewster Cogburn are joined by first time guest, radio broadcaster and local legend Erica Lee.

Chris and Drew give a SPOILER-FREE review of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and Chris reviews The Assassin.

Billy D reviews Anguish.

The Netflix Instant Pick of the Week is Darkman.

The Crespodisco features songs from two of Chris’ favorite Christmas movies – Gremlins and Lethal Weapon.

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Spoiler Bonus Episode – Star Wars: The Force Awakens

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In this SPOILER-FILLED bonus episode, Chris Crespo and Drewster Cogburn talk about STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS, which means they talk about everything that happens in the movie, so if you don’t want to be spoiled before seeing the movie, go see the movie. Of course, that’s silly, because by now everyone has seen the movie. But still, thou hast been warned! Spoilers abound!

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Review: ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’

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“Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” the seventh feature length film in this seminal sci-fi franchise, has the distinction of being the first of the series to be made without any involvement from the creator of the whole thing, George Lucas. And the irony is that director J.J. Abrams et. al. tried their absolute damnedest to make this movie feel as much like the original 1975 film as possible.

The story very simply involves an underground resistance group waging political (and actual) battles against a large evil force determined to take control of the whole galaxy. Some young rag tag folks meet up with an older wise man with a history against the bad guys, lead by a shadowy figure who communicates with his minions via hologram, one of whom is a fella dressed all in black with a black mask and a distorted voice whom every one else fears due to his Force powers. The rebels and the bad guys race against each other to get the same piece of information, which leads to a big space battle at the end involving a large planet-like space station slash world-destroying weapon. Also there is a stop at a cantina-like establishment filled with all sorts of aliens and creatures as well as a live band, and there are cute android antics.

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Netflix pick for 12/14/15 – ‘Grandma’s Boy’

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As heard in episode 153 of Cinema Crespodiso.

Every now and then you just need to sit back and chill out with a ridiculous comedy, and it doesn’t get much more ridiculous than “Grandma’s Boy.” The story of a 35-year old video game designer who finds himself forced to move in with his grandmother and her two roommates and who also meets a girl he likes and wants to impress but also he’s developing his own video game on the side that some video game prodigy genius with the video game designer version of writer’s block wants to steal and pass off as his own, this is a movie with a weird plot with strange little subplots thrown in and a meandering, we’ll-get-there-eventually kind of tone that feels very much in line with the best (and worst) movies of this kind.

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#153 – The Vintage Wrestling Heavyweight Champion

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In episode 153, Chris Crespo and Drewster Cogburn are joined by first time guest, radio broadcaster, trivia master and professional wrestler Simon Time (www.twitter.com/emerald_emperor).

Chris and Drew review Trumbo and Chris reviews In the Heart of the Sea.

Billy D versus Ash versus The Evil Dead.

The Netflix Instant Pick of the Week is Grandma’s Boy.

The Crespodisco features two songs from the original motion picture soundtrack to Home Alone, composed by John Williams.

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Crespodiso Film School – The ROCKY BALBOA Series

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In this BONUS episode, Chris Crespo and Drewster Cogburn talk about all of the movies featuring the character ROCKY BALBOA, which includes the recently released CREED.

How did Sylvester Stallone get ROCKY made in the mid 1970s?

How did the ROCKY series evolve over the subsequent five sequels and one spin off?

Which actor put Stallone in the hospital with a punch to the chest?

Is ROCKY IV actually about anything?

All of this and so much more get covered in this bonus episode, so enjoy the show and maybe even learn a thing or two.
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Netflix pick for 12/7/15 – ‘Fist Of Legend’

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In 1994, Jet Li starred in a remake of a Bruce Lee movie, and that remake is known as “Fist Of Legend,” a martial arts extravaganza of a movie, the action tempered with a story of star-crossed lovers and racial tensions during the Japanese Occupation of China leading up to World War II. Featuring amazing fight choreography from industry legend Yuen Woo-ping and Jet Li at his fastest and fiercest, this is a great movie that will forever be remembered as one of Li’s absolute best.

Chen Zhen (Li) is a Chinese student studying in Japan, and some Japanese martial arts students try to get him to leave and go back to China. At the same time, Chen is involved in a relationship with a Japanese woman, but they are keeping their relationship secret because both sides would frown upon them because of the political and racial problems between the two countries at that time. And on top of all of that, Chen discovers that not only was his old teacher killed in a fight, but he was poisoned before the fight, which is why he lost in the first place, and Chen is compelled to find the murderers and clear his master’s name of any undue disgrace.

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